The Redeemed
Coroner Jenny Cooper Mystery - Book 3
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Publisher Description
Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates . . . A mystery from the past. A deadly secret in the present. The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific, if routine, suicide. Then an enigmatic young priest, Father Lucas Starr, arrives on Jenny’s doorstep, entreating her to hold an inquest into the death of Eva Donaldson, a high profile political campaigner whose past life continued to haunt her. A young man, Paul Craven, has recently been sentenced for Eva’s brutal murder. But despite Craven’s conviction and the evidence against him, Father Lucas is convinced of the man’s innocence. Jenny’s lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of an establishment who wish to silence her, and on an inner journey to confront ghosts that have haunted her for a lifetime. For Jenny Cooper answers to no one but the dead . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of British author Hall's able second mystery thriller to appear in the U.S. (after The Disappeared), coroner Jenny Cooper looks into the apparent suicide of psychiatric nurse Alan Jacobs, found in a churchyard in her Severn Vale district. Later, a Jesuit priest, Fr. Lucas Starr, asks her to investigate the murder of adult film actress Eva Donaldson. Though Paul Craven confessed to the killing and was convicted, Starr believes Craven, who "was not in his right mind," is innocent. Cooper learns that Donaldson joined the Mission Church of God after leaving the porn industry and supported Decency, "a pressure group advocating a ban on internet pornography." Still working through her own childhood trauma and rocky divorce, Cooper is under pressure from all sides to wrap up her inquiries, even when she discovers links between Donaldson and Jacobs's deaths. Hall's damaged heroine walks a fine line between empathy and aloofness, while a chilling blend of religion and corruption propels the whodunit plot.
